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Editorially Speaking:
The Battle Has Been Joined But Not Lost
The results of the heaviest Primary Election in Dallas
Township in sixteen years are not as decisive as might
first appear, nor are they any clear mandate that the
majority of parents favor present School Board policies.
Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Moore carried the Township
against their opponents Mr. Roberts and Mr. Schooley
by no overwhelming majorities. /
99 votes separates Mr. Moore, the highest man, from Mr.
A difference of only
Roberts, the lowest man; but only 24 votes separate
Schooley and Chamberlain.
The presence of Mr. Laidler,
an independent candidate, in the field, complicates the
decision.
The real issues of the campaign were exemplified by
Roberts and Schooley on one side and Chamberlain and
Mocre on the other.
and received 72 votes.
Mr. Laidler took a middle course—
Seventy-two votes on one side or
the other could have made a whale of a difference and
cor’?! have helped to register a clear cut decision—
wletner a majority of Dallas Township voters favor one
side or the other.
Then, too, there was another group of about eighty
voters who actually had no voice in the outcome of the
Primaries.
They were the registered Democrats who had
no local candidates and could not express approval or dis-
approval of present Board policies. Those who registered
a protest; wrote in the names of Schooley and Roberts—
giving them the Democratic nomination—if they care to
oppose the Republican nominees in the General Election.
Schooley and Roberts received their main support from
the Dallas Township members of the Back Mountain Citi-
zens’ Committee for the Schools and from the Indepen-
dent Republican organization.
In the North and Middle
districts where most of these members live, they made
their weight felt.
It was in the Fernbrook district where Marty Walsh,
tavern keeper and county machine leader, wields most
influence that Schooley and Roberts suffered their greatest
set-back. Mr. Walsh has taken an active interest in the
schools and county politics for years, so that the Citizens’
Committee faced not only organization money, but a
skilled operator on election day. It is doubtful, however,
if Mr. Walsh and his subordinates in that area know
more about the welfare of the kids who attend Dallas
Township schools than the parents on the Citizens’ Com-
mittee.
Mr. Schooley and Mr. Roberts put up a good fight and
a clean campaign—although Mr. Roberts’ efforts were de-
layed at the start by the machine's attempts to have his
employer force him out of the Primaries.
this did not come to pass.
Fortunately
Neither Schooley nor Roberts wanted to run for office
but did so only because they worked on the Citizens”
Committee, and became convinced that present policies of
Dallas Township School Board are splitting the commun-
ity apart with resultant ill effects upon education.
They should not be discouraged with Tuesday’s results,
but should continue their battle in the General Election
on the Democratic ticket.
The price of Democracy is
eternal vigilance and the fruits of victory come only to
him who fights!
Too Much Speed
Residents of Pioneer avenue are disturbed over the ex-
cessive speeds at which automobiles are being driven
over that thoroughfare since its resurfacing by the State
Department of Highways.
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Much of the sp$ding i% being done by teen-agers and
out-of-the-community drivers who are now taking the
Pioneer Avenue route as a fast short cut to Dallas and
Harveys Lake. Speeds of sixty to ninety miles an hour are
not uncommon many residents report.
Thursday morning only a miracle prevented a disas-
trous accident at the Center street interesection near the
Methodist Church in Shavertown when a car, reported
to be driven at ninety-miles-an-hour, barely missed one
driven by a Dallas man.
Pioneer Avenue is a residential area and the little chil-
dren and home owners who live along it deserve a better
break than this.
The solution is continuous and effective patrolling and
a strict enforcement of the speed laws.
Right now is the time for Kingston Township and
Dallas Township police to become concerned and do some-
thing about it.
Ninety-Eight Men Are Named
On Mills Circus Committees
Circus advance men have no
snap job, members of Dallas Ki-
wanis Club and Back Mountain Y.
M. C. A. are learning as they pre-
pare for the showing of Mills Bro-
thers Circus here on August 31 at
the show grounds on Harveys Lake
Highway just beyond the golf driv-
ing range.
Ninety-eight men are now hard
at work on the committees that
will have charge of tickets, parking,
publicity, concessions, grounds and
transportation.
Members of all these groups
met last night at Irem Temple
Country Club to receive assign-
ments and to keep the ball rolling
until the big top goes up and comes
down on August 31.
Committees will continue to
meet every Wednesday evening at
7:30 following the Kiwanis meet-
ing at Irem Temple Country Club’
to keep fully informed on develop-
ments and to help bring about the
100% cooperation needed to as-
sure a 100% financial success.
Committee members and chair-
men are:
General Committee, Fred Ander-
son and Lewis LeGrand, co-chair-
men, John Churry, Ralph Garra-
han, Mitchell Jenkins, Robert Flem-
ing, Treasurer; James Graham,
E. “Tug” Wyant, Clyde Cooper.
Ticket Committee, Robert Flem-
ing chairman, John Henninger, Le-
Roy Troxell, Clyde Cooper, Henry
Peterson, Robert Yost, Mitchell
Jenkins.
Parking and Traffic Committee,
Harold Smith, Chairman, Louis
Banta, Primo Berrettini, Lowther
Brown, Walter Brunges, Wesley
Cave, William Dierolf, James Dick,
David ‘Evans, Harold Flack, Thomas
Garrahan, Ralph Gearhart, James
Gansel, Joseph Hand, Sherman
Harter, Charles Hauch, Joseph Ide,
Charles A. James, Charles Kish-
baugh, Clarence LaBar, Melvin
Mosier, William Reniska, Kenneth
Rice, L. L. Richardson, Warren
Taylor, William W. Thomas.
Publicity and Advertising, Thom-
as Shelbourne and Howard Risley,
co-chairmen, Robert Bachm a n,
James. L. Brown, Bernard Bush,
James Culp, Sam Davis, William E.
Davis, Arthur Dungey, George Dy-
mond, Elmer Evans, Charles Hart-
man Ralph Hazeltine, Wilfred Ide,
Stanley Jones, Allan Kistler, Ray-
mond Kuhnert, Fred Merrill, Gil-
bert Tough, George Montgomery,
Richard Morgan, Harry Ohlman,
Russell Race, Russell Ruble, L. B.
Squier, George Taylor, Lew Ide.
Concessions Committee, William
Wright, chairman, Arthur Ellum,
James Huston, David Joseph, Or-
man Lamb.
Grounds Committee, Warr en
Evans, chairman, Donald Arnold
Corey Besteder, Lee Brown, Robert
Clark, Robert Disque, John Dona-
hue, S. N. Goss, William Guyette
Jasper Kocher, W. R. Lohman Ed-
ward Oncay, John Parsons, Albert
Pesevanto, Joseph Petrik, John
Roberts, William Sarley, Ray Sear-
foss, William J. Thomas.
Transportation Committee, Clyde
Birth, chairman, Samuel Thompson,
Donald Harris, Ralph Garrahan,
James Martin.
Insurance Committee, Ralph Gar-
rahan, William Wright.
All Stars To Play
Back Mountain Little League is
entering the first round of the na-
tion-wide elminination games, Its
All Star team will play Ashley
‘Little League All Stars next Friday
evening, August 3 at Ashley.
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MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
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Vol. 61 No. 30
3 New Rooms
Near Completion
At Lehman School
Work On Schedule
School Opening
To Be September 10
Work is going according to sched-
ule on the new addition to Leh-
man-Jackson high school, with
plastering about to start on the
three rooms remodelled from the
old gymnasium, and bulldozing
done to level the grounds over the
newly installed drains and septic
tanks.
School will start on September
10, the Monday after Labor Day,
according to Lester Squier, Super-
vising Principal. Home Economics
classes and shop classes will be
housed for the first month in tem-
porary quarters, as steel beams
needed, for these rooms and the
new gymnasium will not be avail-
able until September 15,
The gymnasium will be com-
pleted and ready for use, according
to the: contractor, Raymon Hedden,
by late November or December 1st.
The structure will be:concrete block
faced with yellow brick to match
the present high school building,
and the new rooms will form a
court enclosed on three sides.
Fire escape for the older frame
building will be installed as soon
as steel is available. The walls
have already been prepared for its
reception.
Umpire Struck:
By Thrown Ball
Coolbaugh’s Nose Broken,
And Left Eye Injured
Irwin. Coolbaugh received pain-
ful injuries to the eyes and nose
Friday night when he was struck
by a thrown ball while umpiring
third base during the Carverton-
Dallas: Little League Game at Shav-'
| ertown Field. . . a
Irwin was intent on watching a
fast play at third when the ball
thrown by the catcher hit him be-
tween the eyes, fracturing his nose
and rupturing a blood vessel and
nerve in his left eye.
He was treated by Dr, J. C.
Fleming of Dallas who stopped ‘the
bleeding of the retina, but has
been unable to set the nose for
fear of further bleeding.
Both eyes are badly swollen and
blackened, but if no complications
set in his seeing will not be im-
paired.
Future Farmers
Purchase Pig
Duroc Boar Son
Of Champions
Members of Blue Ridge Chapter,
Future Farmers of America, Leh-
man-Jackson High School, will have
the benefit of a registered Duzoc-
Jersey boar pig when agriculture
classes start in the fall.
Lewis Disque, president of the
chapter of 1951-52, Anthony Cas-
per, chairman of the Swine Club,
and Russell Ruble, adviser, motor-
ed to Wyerstown to purchase the
three-month old pig from Horst
Brothers, Pennsylvania breeders of
outstanding Duroc swine for the
past several years. The boar is
from the Grand Champion Duroc
Gilt of last year’s Pennsylvania
State’s farm show. The sire was
Blender Model, Grand Champion
boar at the 1950 State Duroc Show
at Reading.
Beaumont Votes
For Jointure
Votes Dry In
Very Light Poll
Beaumont, in a very light vote
on Tuesday, with 215 ballots cast
out of a possible 500, decided that
the Township should be dry, and
expressed itself in favor of school
jointure. °
With no opposition for school
directors, C. W. Smith and Alden
Dietz were reelected for another
term.
Jointure has been in the wind
for some time, with opinion divided
between Lake Township and Tunk-
hannock possibilities.
With the vote in favor of joint-.
ure, school directors will now
undertake a study to determine
the most advantageous move.
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FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1951
Elbert Martin, 42, Killed In Collision At Kunkle
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Albert Martin, 42, unmarried son
of Supervisor and Mrs. Charles
Martin of Dallas Township, was al-
most instantly killed Wednesday
afternoon at 5:30 when the 1935
Dodge sedan pictured above was
crushed beneath a heavily laden
gasoline transport tractor trailer
in front of his brother Kenneth'’s
gasoline station on Route 309 at
Kunkle.
Charles Wertman of Kunkle one
of the first on the scene pulled
Martin's body from the wreckage
and Dr. Sherman Schooley who ar-
rived shortly ordered the injured
man removed in Howard Woolbert’s
ambulance to Nesbitt Memorial
Hospital where he was pronounced
dead upon arrival.
Crowds soon gathered and Char-
les Tregaskis directed traffic around
the wreckage until the arrival of
Chief James Gansel of Dallas Town-
ship police and Pvts. Sicora and
Sinkivich of the State Police.
Shortly prior to the accident
Martin was seen seated in the front
seat of the Dodge which was park-
ed ‘on a grade back of Jack and
May’s Inn. According to neigh-
bors the car was not in operating
condition and was without a key,
battery or fuel.
In some manner the brakes must
have become released and the car
eased down the driveway and out
on Route 302 where it was struck
broadside with terrific impact by
the Tunkhannock bound tractor-
trailer coming down grade. The
impact pushed the Dodge 100 yards
before both machines left the pave.
Driver of the tractor-trailer, own-
ed by Montour Transport Company
of Montoursville, was Bernard C.
Speary 34, of Muncy Valley. He
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was arraigned later before Justice
of the Peace Thomas Robinson,
Dallas Township, and released on
$2,500 bail on a charge of invol-
untary manslaughter. Bail was pro-
vided by his firm.
Mr. Martin was a lifelong resi-
dent of Dallas Township and was
employed on his father’s farm. He
was well known as a hunter and
trapper and was a member of
Kunkle Methodist Church.
Surviving besides his parents are
brothers, Ernest, Elwood, Charles:
Jr., Howard and Kenneth, and sis-
ters, Mrs. Minnie Prutzman, Mrs.
Vera Conden, and Mrs. Edith
Weaver.
Funeral services will be conduc-
ted Saturday afternoon at 2 from
Nulton Funeral Home in Beaumont
with interment in Warden Ceme-
tery, Dallas.
PHOTO BY KOZEMCHAK
Back Mountain Highway Deaths and
Serious Accidents Since V-J Day
DALLAS
KINGSTON TOWNSHIP
~_ ROSS TOWNSHIP
Charles Nuss Terminates Long Term
Presidency Of Lehman School Board
In a closely contested Lehman
Township election * on Tuesday,
Charles” Nuss stepped down from
a twelve-year presidency of the
school -board, three years as presi-
dent of the joint Lehman-Jackson
district. :
S. W. Rhoads was given 228
votes, 9rnan Lamb. 212, Charles
Directors retain their offices until
December board meeting, so com-
pletion “of the school building will
be made under the present board.
Mr. Nuss has served as president
under three school regimes, first
with Austin Snyder, then with
Howard Hendricks, and currently
with Lester Squier, Supervising
Principal. He has given unstint-
ingly of his time and his abilities,
backing community betterment to
the limit.
It has been his privilege to pre-
sent diplomas on graduation from
high school to his three boys, Char-
les, Arthur and Ronald, a distinc-
tion seldom attained by a school
board member.
Twelve years, says Mrs. Nuss, is
a long time for a man, no matter
how civic minded, to devote him-
self so completely to his commun-
ity, sidetracking most other inter-
ests and subordinating his private
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life to his public office. Mr. Nuss,
she says, felt an obligation to run
again, because of the building pro-
gram and the enormous obligations
taken on by the authority in be-
half of expansion; but she is not
sorry that he was not reelected,
because this development will give
the family -more time to be to-
gether. : y
Mr. Nuss is Comptroller of the
Northeastern Pennsylvania Hospital
Association, with headquarters in
the Bennett Building.
Ornan Lamb has been a resident
of Lehman for three years, having
purchased the home vacated by the
Nusses when the new Nuss home
was built. He is a former resident
of Syracuse.
~ Both Mr. and Mrs. Ornan Lamb
are civicminded citizens, much in-
terested in the schools and the
Back Mountain Library. Mrs. Lamb
served on the antique committee
for the Library Auction this July.
Robert Underwood On
Dickinson Dean List
Robert Underwood, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Lewis Underwood, Shaver-
town, June graduate from Dickin-
son College, made the Dean’s List
during the spring semester.
Natona Stages
Big Clam-Bake
Entertains Guests
From New York
Natona Clam-Bake at Pine Brook
Park last Saturday, staged some
unusual entertainment, such as an
egg-throwing contest in which the
John Gallagher-Arline Siglin team
won by keeping the egg in motion
without breaking longer than the’
other twelve contestants; and
designer and ‘model contest
which Mrs. Jennie Steltz as de-
signer and Mrs. Francis Hoover
as model won first place, utilizing
newspapers and pins to the best
advantage.
Three hundred and fifty members
and guests of the union were pres-
ent, including seventeen from New
York. President and Mrs. Leo
Birnbaum and Vice President and
Mrs, Gustaf Gerstle, of the parent
Native Lace organization, were
among the out of town guests.
The clambake started at noon
and continued until midnight. Sack
races, horseshoe pitching, egg and
spoon race, tug of war, nail-driving,
and other athletic events were on
the agenda.
Committee was headed by Char-
les Rinehimer, assisted by Mrs.
Marian Tryon, secretary of the
union; Mrs. Ethel York, vice-presi-
dent; Arline Siglin, John Judge,
Stanley Krawchek, & Carl German.
Six-Room Fargo Home Priced At $8350
First of several proposed dwel-
lings, the six-room ranch-type
house shown here in picture and
plan, is being opened for inspection
Saturday and Sunday at Idetown,
just off the Dallas-Harveys Lake
Highway beyond Castle Inn, by
Keystone Homes Company.
It is known as the Fargo and
is one of three model National
Homes which are now built along
the old Harveys Lake highway in
a beautifully wooded section.
The house is priced at $8,350 and
may. be bought for $1,700 down
and $50 monthly for twenty years.
Monthly payments include taxes
| Flush-Type” doors.
If desired a garage
and large cellar can be added to
the house at additional cost.
The long low lines nestle into
and insurance.
the landscape, giving an air of
spacious comfort. The homes have
rich two-tone exterior finishes and
are completely insulated and have
an integral vapor barrier which
assures the owner of complete
summer and winter comfort. Each
has a Mediterranean bath, Youngs-
town kitchen, and large outdoor
dining terrace attractive against a
natural setting of evergreen trees.
Front entrances have ‘Decorator
Interior doors
come in new natural finish. Doors
and windows are weatherstripped.
Screens and screen doors are in-
cluded. -
The project is not being built
as a development and the homes
can be built on individual lots or
any building site that can be ap-
proved by FHA. The new National
Homes are built to the buyer's
order with a variety of floor plans,
exteriors, elevations and color
schemes available.
At the above price the house
is complete and ready to move into
and the lot is graded, seeded and
shrubbed.
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Democrats Show
Some Life In
Dull Primaries
Chamberlain & Moore
Win In Township; Nuss
Is Defeated In Lehman
With the exception of Dallas and
Lehman Townships where there
were hot contests for school direc-
tors and supervisors there was only
an indifferent interest in the Pri-
mary Election in the Back Moun-
tain area.
In Dallas Township incumbent
director Floyd Chamberlain and
Thomas Moore defeated Charles
Roberts, Harry Schooley and Clar-
ence Laidler by comfortable major-
ities. - Veteran supervisor Charles
Martin was defeated by Philip
Kunkle and George Prater retained
his Justice-of-the Peace post by
defeating George Shupp with the
highest plurality of the day. It
was the heaviest vote in Dallas
Township in several years. Roberts,
Schooley have indicated that they
‘may run again in the General Elec-
tion.
In Lehman veteran school direc-
tor Charles Nuss, who did little
campaigning, was defeated by Or-
nan Lamb,
In Dallas Borough, where less
than 50 per cent of the electorate
went to the polls, Joseph Mac-
Veigh, Raymon Hedden, Severn
Newberry and Timothy LaBar re-
ceived the Republican nomination
for Borough Council and Dr. R. M.
Bodycomb and L. L. Richardson,
also unopposed, were nominated for
school board. Democrats, however,
presented a full slate of write-in
candidates. For Council H. W.
“Chick” Smith, O. K. Harrison,
Robert Brown and Richard Owens;
for school board, D. T, Scott Jr.,
{and Donald Clark.
In Kingston Township a mis-
take on the voting machines cre-
ated some confusion in the super-
visor contest where Ralp Sands
was running for a six-year term
and ‘Isaac Elston was a candidate
for the two-year unexpired term
of William Miers.
gave the impression that they ‘were
opposed and that only one was
to: be elected. Elston and Sands,
however, defeated the write-in
candidate, Theodore Hinkle, four
to one. Daniel Shaver and William
Mannear, Unopposed, received the
Republican nomination for school
board. 4
Throughout the Back Mountain
area. Louis Banta, native son can-
didate for sheriff received a flat-
tering vote running three to one
in a field of five in his own town-.
ship. A k ;
Drilling New 3
Well In Dallas
Company Hopes To
Increase Pressure
Dallas Water Company yester-
day started drilling for a new well
on the Frank Brown property near
the Lehigh Valley Depot in central
Dallas. The well is expected to
increase water pressures through-
out the Borough.
Operations are in charge of Cres-
well Drilling Company and will
probably reach a depth of 300 to
400 feet before the well is com-
pleted.
Many new properties, among
them the new Gate of Heaven
Parochial = School, have recently
been added to the company’s Bor-
ough lines and the new well will
help to take care of this added E
demand. A big turbine pump will .
be installed in a new pump house
to be erected over the well.
Within recent weeks the com-
pany has been installing new 6-
inch lines in the Heights section.
More than 350 feet were laid on
Davenport Street a month ago and
now 450 feet are being laid across
Hunt street to tie in Parrish street
mains with those on Davenport
Street.
LIONS TO SELECT
“LADY OF THE LAKE"
Harveys Lake Lions are fever-
ishly planning their second annual
“Lady of The Lake” Beauty Con-
test for ‘both single and married
women. Last year 30 single girls
entered. Miss Rene Janoski was
winner.
Henry L. Deater and ‘Fred Allen
co-chairmen, have announced the
site for this year’s contest as Sun-~
set Park on Sunday, August 19th
and Sunday August 26th. On the
latter date a new Hudson convert--
ible will be given to the holder of
a lucky ticket.
Applications may be procured
from H. L. Deater, Fred Allen of
H. L., or Dean Shaver Idetown.
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